alew

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare halloo.

Noun

alew (plural alews)

1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:

     Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.

Anagrams

• e-law, lawe, wale, weal

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Gothic

Romanization

alew

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅